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Wilhelm von Humboldt (Prussian philosopher and linguist)

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt
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Humboldt, Wilhelm von
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Date of birth
1767-06-22
Place of birth
Potsdam
Date of death
1835-04-08
Place of death
Berlin

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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named after him and his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist.

He was a linguist who made contributions to the philosophy of language, ethnolinguistics, and to the theory and practice of education. He made a major contribution to the development of liberalism by envisioning education as a means of realizing individual possibility rather than a way of drilling traditional ideas into youth to suit them for an already established occupation or social role. In particular, he was the architect of the Humboldtian education ideal, which was used from the beginning in Prussia as a model for its system of public education, as well as in the United States and Japan. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1822.

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Goodreads Author ID
204411
ISNI
0000 0001 2145 1108
LibraryThing Author
humboldtwilhelmvon
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL78044A
VIAF
100183995
Wikidata ID
Q77888

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